Yeah, I think generational trauma is definitely thematically prominent in many films this year and seems trendy at the moment, but to say it’s never been examined well in film before this year is a clearly wrong overstatement. This piece would’ve benefitted from a narrower scope. The shift in children’s movies is more… Read more
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Especially silly that they cite Dune and King Richard as being explicitly not about intergenerational trauma. Paul’s entire conflict is being handed 1) his father and family’s legacy 2) generations and generations of colonialism/bene jesserit social engineering. And now I’m mulling over Power of the Dog, a movie that… Read more
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The Sonnenfeld films were at their best when the Addams’s were forced to live among normal society (getting evicted in the first film, summer camp in the second). It’s a shame this show doesn’t understand that. Read more
I’m neither a parent nor an ADHD expert so my opinion here might be next to worthless. But I am an adult who got diagnosed with ADD a few years ago, and what you’re describing sounds veeery much like ADD and how I was as a kid. (Ahem, and also how I am now as an adult.) Not EVERY kid with ADD will be hyperactive.… Read more
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Many of these tips are also good when working with an elderly person with physical impairments or vision loss. You can provide some useful assistance without making them feel infantilized. Say "do you see that step up ahead?" then give them a little time to problem solve instead of rushing in. Read more
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The stores I go to reinstituted cloth bags well over a year ago. That was always a silly thing to ban anyway, covid doesn’t spread that way. I use mine every week, but I also use the self-checkout. Read more
I personally loved the concept of the aisles being one-way, with arrows on the ground indicating which way the traffic would flow. It seems like that would make it harder for inconsiderate people to block the aisles. Though hard to say since in practice hardly anybody seemed to follow them, kind of shocking to me. I… Read more
“Self-checkout is not only a way for me personally to avoid feeling shame, but it also often speeds up the checkout process” Read more
“Antifa love story perfection.” Read more
The vaccines drastically reduce transmission and I’m not putting a gun to anyone’s head. And the reason people are being told to take it or else lose their livelihood is because they are putting other people’s lives at risk by not getting vaccinated. It’s not fucking rocket sciences. There is already a precedent for… Read more
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It is easy to say that the films in any genre are shit and provide copious examples because Sturgeon’s rule has no exceptions. Read more
Maybe now that (hopefully) all that commercial office space is coming up available because (hopefully) companies are encouraging more work-from-home we’ll see more urban farming expansion. Read more
“What’s the point of having a 400-calorie salad for lunch if you’re just going to get hungry and grab a 300-calorie candy bar later? Do yourself a favor and just eat 700 calories of nutritious food in the first place.” OMG Somebody actually gets it. I am so tired of all the food police in my life making sarcastic… Read more
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I’ve said this before around these parts but after a year of watching HBO Max’s “straight to the dumpster” quality Blockbusters, it makes it harder and harder to say that these are assembly line. Like, we know they’re going to fight a bad guy at the end and 95% chance they’ll win, but if every other major franchise is… Read more